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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Novels
Scope & Content:
Draft material, manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and first-edition copies of D. M. Thomas's novels.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1975?-1996
Extent:
45 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Poetry and translations
Scope & Content:
Draft material — autograph manuscript, typescript and photocopies — for poetry by D. M. Thomas, including his translation of Russian verse by Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Polish, and Russian
Date Range:
early 1960s-2017
Extent:
61 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Memoirs
Scope & Content:
Draft material for books of memoirs written by D. M. Thomas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1987-2007
Extent:
5 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Biography, 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life'. Research material and typescripts.
Scope & Content:
Photocopies, correspondence, drafts, newspaper cuttings and notes relating to D. M. Thomas's biography of the Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a century in his life' (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998; London: Little, Brown, 1998).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Russian
Date Range:
1900-2013
Extent:
49 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Other published work and productions
Scope & Content:
Typescripts and copies of miscellaneous published works by D. M. Thomas: radio adaptations, presentations and stage plays.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1969-2004
Extent:
5 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Works unpublished or unperformed
Scope & Content:
Typescript drafts of writings by D. M. Thomas remaining unpublished or unperformed at the time of the collection's acquisition by the British Library in 2018.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
1970s-mid 2010s
Extent:
11 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Correspondence and contracts
Scope & Content:
Correspondence mainly sent to D. M. Thomas from various individuals and organisations: fellow authors, students, admirers of his work, participants in his writing courses, literary societies, festival organisers and publishing houses (including copies of contracts).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1965-2013
Extent:
25 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: 'The White Hotel', abandoned film adaptation
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, papers, draft screenplays and legal documents relating to plans to make a film adaptation of D. M. Thomas's novel 'The White Hotel', and to various related legal disputes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Sep 1984-Apr 2017
Extent:
19 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Personal papers
Scope & Content:
Personal papers, notes, diaries of engagements and photographs of D. M. Thomas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1920s-2016
Extent:
24 folders

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Title:
D. M. Thomas: Born-digital material: Word-processed draft of 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in his Life'.
Scope & Content:
Born-digital files of D. M. Thomas: a word-processed draft of 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life'. These files were originally held on a floppy-disc in a folder with the material now forming sub-series Add MS 89363/4/19-21. The text in these files is showing a degree of corruption...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1995-1997
Extent:

41 digital objects